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The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-08-05

Saia Davis, street work, 9 90
Davis & Bailey, raising engine, etc. 25 90
Bailey Mfg Co, repairing engine, 8 40
A'd. Gould presented the following
communication. The matter was referred
10 The Street Commissioner for investiga-
ton,
Owosso, July.2S, 81.
There is iidge" in the street in front
of our store, and has been since the Gas
Co put down their mains. Will the COM
mittee on grading and sidewalks kindly
take of the hump and greatly oblige,
OsDuRN & Sous.
NJ. Osburn called the attention of the
Council to the condition of the street on
the east line of the city, leading from King
to Oliver street and asked to have some
work done on H. The matter was referred
to the committee on grading and sidewalks
The committee on Grading and Side
walks made the following report which
was accepted and adopted:
To the Honorable Mayor and Common
Council OF the city OF Owosso:
The committee on grading and side
walks would report that they have let the
job of grading Fletcher and Ament street
to the lowest bidder, as follows: Fletcher
street to John Love, $45; Ament street to
John Love, $2s.
The report of the Street Commissioner
was read and ordered placed on file.
The committee on Claims and Accounts
reported favorably on the accounts pre-
sented, with the exception of those of j.
Mcbride, Times PIT. Co. and N Virgins
the report was accepted, unanimous con-
sent was given, and the accounts allowed.
Ayes 8. nays 0.
The same committee also reported in
favor of allowing the account of j. w.
Siockwell at S102.7s The report was ac-
cepted and the account allowed Ayes 8,
nays
The report of the commissioners on the
assessment grade roll for Ament street was
Z read and on motion confirmed.
On motion the city attorney was in
siTncted 10 investigate The question OF tbt
legality of the last vote on the water works
question and report TO the Council at III
next meeting. Also in regard to license
ordinance
On motion the grade roll for Ridge stree
was confirmed. Ayes s. nays 0.
The question OF the ACCESSIBILITY of til,
city paying off the debt on the fair ground
was discussed at some length, and oil
motion referred 10 the committee on Way
and Means.
The Council then adjourned.
EDMUND 0. DEWEY,
City Clerk.
The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1887-08-05

evil Words" was Rev. Cranes
subject Sunday evening. There are
children in this community who use
evil words when their parents are not
aware of il. NED.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1887-03-10
Seeming IntOxicatiOn.

In no class OF people does heredlty DO
a more disastrous work than in the de-
scendants of drinkers, whether excessive
or moderate. A morbid appetite for
liquor in such cases, with the disadvan-
tage of an inherited nerve degeneration,
may manifest itself in many terrible
forms. Among these many forms are
the ordinary symptoms of intoxication in
a person perfectly temperate. DR.. Croth-
ers, of Hartford, Conn, presents many
such cases in paper read before the
American Association for the Cure of
Inebriates, and published in the Alienist
and Neurologist. The first cases that at
tracted his attention were two boys, sons
of drunkards, in the Hartford Deaf and
Dumb Asylum, who had shown clear
signs of intoxication from their birth.
He was afterward surprised to find such
cases not uncommon. In some persons
the symptoms are present all the time,
either appearing at birth, or slowly de-
veloping with the growth of the child.
Most of such cases show other marked
indications of physical degeneration-as
idiocy, imbecility, or bodily deformity.
In second class of cases, almost any
excitement is sufficient to bring on an
attack. This class may include persons
of average intellect, and even of genius.
In them the neurotic (nerve) degenera-
ton may, at later date, end in imbecility
or insanity. A farmer, fifty 7SSrsi years
old, a man of wealth and Eh&actef,
whose father was drunkard, but who
himself never used any kind of spirits,
showed symptoms of intoxication after
meeting with an accident from a run
away horse. At the. funeral of child,
some months later, his family were
greatly mortified at his silly language,
Staggering gait. and other marked symp-
toms of intoxication. A year later a
similar attack followed the burning of
some buildings on his farm.
There are similar cases in which the
nerve degeneration is due, not to heredity,
but to early habits of intoxication. A
noted Temperance lie; turer, total ab-
stainer for ten years or more, received
while lecturing q despatch announcing
the fatal illness of his daug ghter. He
drank glass of water, became confused,
staggered, and was led from the stage
laughing and shouting in maudlin way.
He had drank no spirits, but the au-
dience supposed him intoxicated
Youths C0pDdnl0R.
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Great Libraries.

The largest library in the world is the
Bibiothequo National, in Paris, which
contains 2, ,OO0,O 900 volumes, and is won
derfully rich IN manuscripts. The next
largest is that of the British Museum,
with 100000 volumes, and the third
is the Imperial, in St. Petersburg, with
100, OOO volumes. Other great Libraries
are: Royal, Berlin, 700, 900; Royal, Dres-
den, and Royal, Copenhagen, 100000
each; Royal, Munich, $50, 900; Imperial,
Vienna, 1000 Congressional, Wash
ington, $50, 600, and University, Leipsic,
$50, 900. The Boston public library is
the largest in America. after the Con-
gressional, having, including branches,
555, 900 volumes. The Yale Library has
100000; the Astor, New York, 1sO, 600;
the Mercantile, in Philadelphia, 1876, 900;
the Philadelphia library, 1O5, 600. and
the National, of Mexico, 100, 900. The
famous Bodleian Library, Oxford Uni
sity, England, has $50, 1000 volumes. :.
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A Miner Millionaire.

A miner in Leadville, Colorado, who
can neither read nor write, is worth to-
day at least $1,000, 900. Four years ago
he hadn't penny, except what he earned
from day to day as miner. His name
is John L. Morrissey He is young
man, not over thirty-two or thirty-three.
The Crown Point mine was just about
paying expenses. Her owners offered to
sell her for $4,000. Morrissey went to
Chicago and interested Diamond Joe
Reynolds in the matter. Reynolds knew
that. Morrissey was authority on mining,
even if he couldn't write his name. He
finally purchased the Crown Point,
agreeing to give Morrissey half inter
est after the original sum was repaid.
Within thirty days they. strpek. g vein of
high-class ore that has yieMea them 9
monthly income of $1s, ,OOg gapisee sessE
since. There is said to bsS q0a 900
worth of ore in sight. 2asgiaia tf tf
(Nec.) Chronicle. S'etsSS
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but only let me be your wife, and I will
try 30 hard to make you happy"
Il am blind" he murmured, hope
lessly.
"Let me be your eyes. Oh! Roy" she
sobbed, turning away and covering her
face with her hands, "don't send me
away. I cannot bear it. I cannot live
without yol."
He was silent for moment, then he
arose and turned toward her.
1T seems unmanly to accept your sac
rife, Ellice." he cried, "but my life is
so dark, and," his voice grew infinitely
tender, Il love you so, come to me, lit
tie one," holding out his arms, ''for I
cannot see you"
Then, as he clasped her to his heart,
and kissed the warm lips so near his own,
he whispered:
II never knew before what depriva-
tion the loss of sight is"
"And how soon can we be married,
darling2' he asked, as she was about to
leave him,
whenever you wish, Roy" she re-
piled.
"ReallyW
eyes, really" she answered.
"To-day, then" said he, promptly.
"Oh, well, not quite so soon as that, "
she said laughing, "but in fortnight,
perhaps; yes, two weeks from to-day" "
".t will be an age," he declared, kiss
ing her goodbye, "for I cannot even
write to you" ~
But he did.
A week later she received few lines
from him. The words were blotted and
the letters, uneven, but she did not think
of that. for he wrote:
"lou brought me sight. I can dis
tinguish the shape of the paper upon
which write, and I live in hopes that
when we meet I shall be able to see your
dear face"
And that hope was not vain.
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BIeached Diamonds.

Everyone, Of course, knows something
about paste diamonds and Paris dla-
monds, and the thousand and one imita-
tions of this gem of great price. And
most people, we imagine, know the va.
rious tests by which the genuineness OF
q stone can be established; but the reve-
lations made at the Marylebone police
court the other day will probably be
news to some of US. AS to the case It.
self, we need say no more than that the
prisoners were committed for trial; but
certain facts came out during the inqui-
ry which possess considerable interest
for the public, or at least for those of the
public who are the happy owners of dia-
monds. That there should be any means
whereby yellow diamonds, which are
worth about Qpe-seventh of white dia.
monds of the Ss{1a size, can be bleached
for that i15< 1atthe manipulation
amounts to- Heceive an expert,
is enough a65e very serious dis
ouietude MHe5HTa fair bosom. But
MIR. Street6f Even further than this,
for he gfat 0asly informed the magis-
trate that two years ago French
man ssss ie3|g7; iIe'3|7; upon nonntA the voets hen;
of diamandswhich had thus been chemi.
callyambs1Ssd. 1t would be interesting
to knoMShat has become of those dia-
monds. what has become of their
doubtless Numerous successors2 So valu-
abb IN Invention has certainly not been
permitted to lie idle.-St. .Janaes's Ga
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1887-03-10
Maladies of Gagged Birds.

The melancholy part of the study of
Gagged birds is the abundance of diseases
to which they are liable. Especially dur
ing the winter and the early spring the
pathetic little captives are apt to suffer
and die in way which makes the very
fact of their captivity reproach. After
examining the grisly catalogue of their
complaints, we have come to the conclu-
sion that the excessive dullness of their
lives in cages drives them to the only in
diligence which is possible to them, that
Of overeating themselves. The excited
bird which falls from its perch, in the
middle of burst of song, smitten with
apoplexy; the hot and lumpy bird which
is a victim to hepatitis; the corpulent bird
whose figure no dandelion leaves or Ep.
;s0nsstts will reduce; the cpileptic bird
that drags on existence by slipping tine
tiire oE lobeia and drops OF castor oil,
all these melancholy invalids would have
escaped their sad condition if they could
have resisted the tempting hempseed
and the luscious milksop. But how are
they TO drag life through their long mo-
notonous days2 In the utter insipidity
of aviary existence the open and mex
haustible box of food decoys them like a
vice, and they succumb to temptation, as
Nine. Bovary did, from sheer unmitiga-
ted ennui. Sometimes, in the later stages
of decline, all reticence is thrown aside,
and the unfortunate songster sits all day
long at the feeding trough. shelling and
throwing aside the food that it positive
ly cannot swallow, and yet must be
handling. In these sad cases live spi-
der is sometimes found beneficial, as for
hysterical human patients the family
doctor may recommend pantomimc or
fancy ball. We cannot but think that
more study might with advantage be
given to the question of the food OF
Gagged birds, since this seems to be the
difficulty upon which their management
always strikes. 1t is curious that bird
fanciers persist in feeding their charges
with hempseed probably because the ir-
responsible little wretches gobble it up
with so much greediness. But this is
no more reason for giving it to them
than the fact that children like maca-
rooms would be a reason for feeding
them daily upon this indigestlhle dain-
ty. Birds require at least as much care
as children in selecting for them, not
what they prefer, but what is best.-Sat-
urduy RerisD
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WINTER AND SPRING

That weary time that comes between
The last snow and the earliest greenl
One barren clod the wide fields lie,
And all or co nfort is the sky.
We know the sap is in the tree
That life at buried roots must be;
Yet dreary is the earth we tread,
As if her very soul were dead.
Before the dawn the darkest hourl
The blank and chill before the flower!
Beauty prepares this background grey,
Ehereon her loveliest tintS to lay.
All, patien"e. ere we dream Of it,
Springs far new gospel will be writ.
Look up. good only can befall,
While heaven is at the heart Of all!
Lucy Larcom, in Youths Companion.
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in naming my errand2"
Certainly" he replied, courteously.
"Well," said his visitor, somewhat
weakly, striving to gain time, now that
the decisive moment had come. "the
fact is, am thinking of getting mar
ried."
''Ellice," he said, brokenly, "it was
cruel to come here to tell me that. Did
you think had still any hopes that you
cared for me, that you should come
here to kill them with that announce
ment:"
"No." she replied, and then, as no
other words would come, sat staring
helplessly at the pale face, as he leaned
against the cushions of his chair. Pres
emily she arose and stood beside him,
letting her fingers toy with the crisp,
dark curls that shaded his brow.
''Roy," she whispered, hurrying into
speech, lest her courage should fail,
"Roy, don't you know that love you
better than any one else in the world2 I
loved you then, but I love you an
hundred times more now. My life has
been one long regret ever since. came
here to-day to ask you to marry me.
Don't refuse me, Roy. have suffered
enough for my mistake and 1 love
you"
"Oh, Ellice,' he cried, between pain
and pleasure, chow Can consent! 1t
would be such a sacrifice"
II know it, Roy" she answered, will
fully misunderstanding him, "when you
are worthy of the best woman living; :;
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gfiched by Indian Blood.

Dssid Meredith, a well-known citizen
of Ricl Valley, Ind. has just struck a
bonan ii short time since Meredith
&C, ida6fHI discovered that he had
CkerokSS ndtan blood in his veins,
thoughSsHaysrcg rcgarded as af afull-slooded
Hoosier. He at once applied for the
annuities and privileges accorded men,
bers of his tribe, and has recently re-
turned from a trip to Vinita, Indian
Territory, where he selected liberal
slice of UncIs Sans choicest lands. lie
has received patent for the property
from the Unifsd States Commissioner.
Some timy during the sixteenth CEN
tury, one oi fh6 oTiginal Meredths in
this country dasfing young English
man, wents on .trading expedition
among the 3Gh4fcEees. He was made
captive, and Haa|kbout to be put to a
horrible deatfS swaSh the chiefs daugh-
ter interposed Ind safed his life. Mere
dith galantly asiisa thsgirl, and it is
descends.
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Another Sad Failure.

Sweet Girl-"And 80 you have been
on the plains for ten years2"
Handsome Cowboy-"Yes, this is the
first time I've been back into real civiliza-
ton"
Now please tell me, in that lonely
life. so far removed from the refining
influences of-civilization, you know,
what did you miss most2"
HOysters."
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Queen Victoria seeive a Jubilee
address from thesthit 0r more survi-
vors of the famous ight Brigade OF
Balaklava. sGStS#
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-13
TO REXT.

Stores in Odd Fellows Hall. Possession Nov.
list. Apply to
A. R. FAwCETT, Secretary,
Market SQUARE
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FIoRIpA,s METROPOLIS.
A Stamp Clerk Fires Bullet at an In
pudent Customer.


JACKSONVILLE, FLA, Oct. 12.-The Flor
ida Fruit Exchange shipped the first lot Of
oranges to-day.
A private letter to a prominent citizen
here, from New York, states that a certain
prominent railroad official recently made a
statement that an effort would be made TO
reduce rates from New York and Chicago
TO Florida to SIG IS for the round trip
Officials here deny all knowledge of the
statement
A petition to the County Commissioners
will be offered at the next meeting asking
that body TO appropriate s., go to advertise
Duval county through the United States
and. Europe.
Work on the fernando Citrus and fasco
building ON the Sub-Tropical grounds was
commenced to-day.
w. K. Sebring, stamp clerk at the post
office, shot ut a negro from the stamp win
dow at o'clock this afternoon, hut missed
him. The man had just purchased some
stamps, and in making change Sebrlng
claims he ''sassed" him, Though number
OF men were standing near, the bullet sped
up Market street. harming no one Sebrlng
was arrested and gave bail for his appear
ance before a Magistrate in the morning.
He is a son of Gen. w. II. Sebring, and is
about 81 years old.
Justice Belissario's term expires to-mor-
row at noon, but as the commission of W.
L. McGill, his successor, has not yet arrived,
be will probably hold over
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OVER IN CHARLESTON.
A Days Happenings in South Caro-
lina's METROPOLIS

The attention of the South Carolina mill
tary is just at this time divided between
the Atlanta Exposition and the Charleston
Festival.
The Charleston City Convention will
be held on Nov II, at which there will be
nominated q Mayor, two Aldermen from
each ward and six School Commissioners.
Charleston has on its hands now five pub
lie buildings, four of which are to be built
up from the ground, and one, the City Hall,
to be repaired. The entire cost of the build
lngs aggregates something over 100000
The members of the Charleston base ball
team drew their salaries Tuesday and were
released by the club Hungler and VIII
Jams left at once, and Childs, Doyle,
Hines, Smith and others left yesterday.
Powell and Glenn will remain until Satur-
day.
The first block of the new granite pier of
the custom house wharf was placed in posi-
ton yesterday morning. Judge Simonton,
of the United States District Court, swung
the stone into position. The occasion was
made memorable by the breaking of bottle
of drown stout"
The Executive Committee of the Young
Mems Democratic Club have determined to
recommend the admission to membership in
the club Of all good Democrats regardless Of
other considerations 1t is also one of the
political on dts that the new organization
will make an effort to secure an Alderman
from each ward
The Town Council of Summerville have
appointed a committee consisting of ten
members some of whom are Wardens, to
inquire into the condition of the needy
poor in and around Summerville, with the
object of making a report of their condi-
tion to the County Commissioners of Cole
ton and Berkeley counties.
Lieut.. J. A. Hutton, of the Eighth In
fantry, United States army, has located his
headquarters in Charleston and will estab-
fish permanent recruiting station there.
The requirements of enlistment in the army
have been raised to such a high standard of
late that the government have found it
necessary TO establish six additional recruit
ing depots, two of which are to be located
in the South. One of these is to be estab-
lished in Charleston and the other at Mem
phis. Lieut.. Hutton is charged with the
establishment of the station in Charleston.
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Illustrated Catalogue of Magazines.

Mr. j. Walter Thompson, the well known
advertising agent. - Park Row, New York,
has Just issued a book with the above title
for the use OF adveI tisers 1t is very hand
somaly printed ard equally as well written
aud arranged Its objec is 10 demonstrate
more clearly than has heretofore been done
the benefits 10 Oc derived by advertising III
a specially ol advertising in such publica-
tions aud has built mp successful business
by SO doing. He asl, however, does bust
ness with the lending daily and weekly
newspapers. The book is well worthy of
the perusal OF those who are studying the
art of advertising.
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NORTHEAST GEORGIA.
A Man Fatally Injured at Harmony
Grove tn snian Topics.

A Man Fatally injured at HarmO ny
Grove-Ath snian Topics.
ATHENS, GA, Oct. l2.-This morning, as
the passenger train on the Northeastern
railroad was leaving Harmony Grove, a
station about twenty five miles from here,
young white man, driving a horse hitched
TO a cotton wagon, attempted TO cross the
track The horse became frightened and
backed the wagon across toe track just be-
fore the engine passed, but landed the man
in deep gully near by, throwing a bale of
cotton across his head A special tonight
says that tine man is dying, his skull being
badly crushed. His name is not known
At meeting of the Senior class Of the Uni
versity of Georgia this afternoon the follow
ing young men were chosen officers: c. j.
Bondurant, Of Augusta, President; w. A
Davis. of Greensboro, Vice President; L.
/. knight, of Atlanta, Orator; J. E. Bos-
tor, of Marietta, Historian; George A. Mer-
Ger, Jr., of Savannah Poet. This is one
of the largest and brightest classes in college
The committee appointed b. the citizens
of Athens to invite Hon. jefferson Davis TO
the city, left for Beauvoir this afternoon in
- sppclal
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Left to Die by q Doctor.

CONVICTION, GA, Oct l2-Lost Sunday
night Willis Jones, colored, who lives il
the eastern portion of this county, dis
covered Henry Mack in his potato patch
grabbing potatoes He haAed Mack, an
asked him what he was doing there. Mack
began TO crawl along and grunt like hog
Jones told him to halt or he would shoot
His command not being needed, he shot and
almost severed Mack's arm from his body
near the shoulder. A doctor at Newborn
was sent for, but as no one would guarantee
his fee, he declined to go, and the wounded
man bled to death during the night Hi,
life could have been saved by surgical aid
Jones has been arrested and bound over tc
the Superior Court
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STATE CAPITAL SETTINGS.
DR.. Lincoln's Commissioned Sensa-
ton at the Exposition.

Or. LlncOlnS COmmlSSlOn-A SeuSh-
ton at the Exposition.
ATLANTA, GA, Oct. 12.-The Governor
today commissioned under the recent en-
actment DR. Frank T. Lincoln, surgeon of the
Chatham Artillery, with the rank of First
Lieutenant
The Adjutant General received the follow
ing equipments from the War Department
to-day: Two hundred and fifty bayonet
scabbards, cartridge boxes, gun sings and
belts and plates, 100 firing pins to repair old
guns, and 900 friction primers and blank
cartridges. These viii be distributed to
companies nee Ing them.
The following Supreme Court decisions
Were handed down to-day:
w r. Phillips, Jr VS. s. d. Donald; City
Court of Atlanta Affirmed
+. NJ Van Pelt vs. the Home Building
and Loan Association; Fulton. Affirmed.
In this case Van Pelt claimed that the asso-
cation was charging an illegal rate of in
terest. The Supreme Court decided other
wise, holding that the associations had al
WAYS been held to be legal on the plan under
which they are usually conducted.
To-day a sensation was created in the ex-
position grounds bv the police ordering the
Iefreshment stands to discontinue selling
rice beer and nerve tonic 1t is claimed
that these stands have been selling whisky
and genuine beer. A keg of beer and a
bottle OF nerve tonic have been seized and
placed in the hands of chemist TO be
analyzed. The refreshment stands claim
that when they purchased the privilege
they were allowed to sell rice beer and
temporarily, but they are open again this
avorinU